Tickets for the Sept. 26 speech will be available beginning at noon, and organizers said 10,000 will be made available to the general public. The tickets will be given away on a first-come, first-serve basis, and each person is limited to four.

Organizers faced an outcry last week over a ticket plan keeping most of Pope Francis' audience at his two biggest Philadelphia events several blocks away. A map added to some confusion over the size of the ticketholder-only zone.

Papal Visit Tickets Up for Grabs

Tickets to see the Pope will be available online starting Tuesday for the first 10,000 to claim them.

(Published Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015)

Here are answers to some key questions:

DO I NEED TICKETS TO ATTEND THE POPE'S PUBLIC EVENTS IN PHILADELPHIA?

It depends on the event. The pope is holding three major public events in the city: a Sept. 26 speech on immigration and religious freedom in front of Independence Hall, an appearance at the closing festival of the World Meeting of Families on Sept. 26 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and a celebration of Mass on Sept. 27 on the same boulevard.

Tickets are being distributed primarily to parishioners in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, plus surrounding dioceses in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

The thousands of people attending the World Meeting of Families, the triennial Catholic conference attracting Francis to Philadelphia, are automatically receiving passes. Passes also are being given to event sponsors and members of other faith communities and church social service programs.

There are also 10,000 tickets for each day that will be made available to the general public. They will be distributed Sept. 9 through a website on a first-come, first-served basis; details have not yet been announced.

Papal visit planners decided to make that last batch available after a backlash over the announcement this week that several blocks up front had been set aside for ticket holders and that tickets were largely reserved for parishioners in the city and four surrounding counties.

IF I DON'T HAVE A TICKET, WILL THERE STILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE POPE?